# IBM Ventures backs BQP as bookings climb eightfold

IBM Ventures invests in BQP, a physics acceleration firm, as revenue and customers triple.

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IBM Ventures has taken a stake in BQP, a Syracuse-based physics acceleration company, bringing the firm's total funding to $8 million. [^1]

BQP reported that contracted and committed revenue has risen eightfold since its 2025 seed round, with customers tripling. [^2]

BQP's software speeds up engineering physics calculations, such as tracking satellite trajectories and managing heat in battery packs. [^3]

Venn10 Capital and existing backer Monta Vista Capital also participated in the investment. [^4]

BQP's flagship platform, BQPhy, resolves full-fidelity physics inside operational decision windows to utilize roughly 85% of a GPU's floating-point capacity that classical solvers leave idle. [^5]

BQP holds a CRADA with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Aerospace Systems Directorate and has demonstrated BQPhy on radio-frequency signal problems for the tactical edge with NavalX. [^6]

## What this stands on

1. IBM Ventures has taken a stake in BQP, a Syracuse-based physics acceleration company, bringing the firm's total funding to $8 million. (Investing.com, News)
2. BQP reported that contracted and committed revenue has risen eightfold since its 2025 seed round, with customers tripling. (Investing.com, News)
3. BQP's software speeds up engineering physics calculations, such as tracking satellite trajectories and managing heat in battery packs. (Investing.com, News)
4. Venn10 Capital and existing backer Monta Vista Capital also participated in the investment. (Investing.com, News)
5. BQP's flagship platform, BQPhy, resolves full-fidelity physics inside operational decision windows to utilize roughly 85% of a GPU's floating-point capacity that classical solvers leave idle. (Cision PR Newswire, News)
6. BQP holds a CRADA with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Aerospace Systems Directorate and has demonstrated BQPhy on radio-frequency signal problems for the tactical edge with NavalX. (Cision PR Newswire, News)

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